A White Lotus's Survival Guide [Book Transmigration]

[Romance from the male lead's perspective, cross-dressing male lead, lots of scenes for the female lead]

In his previous life, Chu Bailian died young. But in this life, he has loving parents, sect elders who care about him, and a senior sister who seems cold on the outside but is gentle and considerate deep down. He has found a happy life beyond anything he could have imagined in his previous life.

The only drawback is that when he was born, a shady old fortune-teller from Tianji Sect showed up uninvited, read his fortune, and insisted that he was born under an ill star and would be broken by his own strength. Until he reached the Nascent Soul stage, he had to dress as a woman, or he would die young. Chu Bailian didn't believe a word of it, but his parents treated the fortune-teller's words as gospel. Whenever he brought it up, his mother would look at him with tearful eyes, and his resolve would instantly crumble.

His sect, Tianxuan Sect, is one of the most powerful in the cultivation world. The demonic path is in decline, and the righteous path, led by Tianxuan Sect, has brought peace to the land. As the grandson of Tianxuan Sect's Third Elder, Chu Bailian can practically do as he pleases in the cultivation world, except around the handful of people in the sect he mustn't offend.

He thought he could keep living comfortably like this forever.

Then, when he was sixteen, the sect held its recruitment for new disciples, and an unexpected rival came along. That's when he realized he had transmigrated into an old-school Mary Sue novel, and was the first cannon-fodder villain to appear in the story.

In the book, his senior sister, cold on the outside but warm inside, gentle and powerful, became a jealous, venomous beauty. He became her lackey, doing a series of idiotic things to help her get rid of the female lead, whom she saw as a menace.

Not only was he tricked and killed in a secret realm by one of the female lead's suitors, but his parents and the entire Third Elder's branch were also wiped out from Tianxuan Sect.

To take such a winning hand and play it this badly was utterly humiliating!

Watching that little white flower take advantage of others' generosity while pretending to be wronged to draw everyone's attention, Chu Bailian almost burst out laughing.

He wanted to see for himself whether the self-righteous do-gooder or the innocent-looking schemer was better at playing the game.

Theme: No matter the circumstances, be a good person.